Hey Burner Family, Feed the Artists, the playa’s premiere food gifting camp for 12 years now, is looking for volunteers with trucks/flatbeds/transportation for our mobile food gifting to artists that occurs during evenings of setup week. If you will be on playa setup week, Wednesday thru Saturday an...

Hello Burner Family, We're Feed the Artists and we're looking for a couple of opera singers for a Saturday 8/27 (pre-burn) playa event and artist feed. Prefer Italian opera. Have dinner with us, sing some arias and come help feed the artists. 5pm start. This is for folks who already have an early en...

For those meteorology nuts like me who want to track the weather out there, Weather Underground now has a monitoring station at Trego which is couple of miles south of the BM site. This should be the closest station to the action. Shows projected rain too. http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findwea...

Went out to 4th of Juplaya last week. Camped about two miles north-east of BM site. Drove to approximate BM location. Report: big, loose cracks that crumble fairly easily. Ground was a bit moist about 6 or so inches down. Ground was difficult to cycle on. Were we camped, rebar popped out relatively ...

Feed the Artists will most definitely be at Burning Man this year as we have been since 2007. Here's a little info on us and much more at: http://www.feedtheartists.net/ Feed the Artists (aka FtA) is a communal art grant that builds community through food gifting. We facilitate offers of gratitude a...

Wow. This sure resonated with me. This is my 13th Burn and the last few were becoming a little predictable. Don't get me wrong, still the best experience on the planet for me, but, well, I was losing the sparkle. Because I love BM so much, I decided to volunteer for Feed The Artists and put my culin...

Here's an option: rent or buy a used a minivan or cargo van, get a 10X20 carport and cover it all with a tarp. Sleep in van, hang out under carport. This is way condensed, but I can provide more details if you wish. I've done this for many years, works for us.

For eleven years I have been proud to be part of an event that allows freedom of space and expression to hold something so wonderful as Critical Tits. I fully support the photographic policy of BM and am respectful and supportive of personal expression events such as Critical Tits. However, this yea...

Been going for 12 years now and never realized that the "shaded Theme Camp Zones" are free game for all after 12:01 a.m. If I read the above correctly, that's what I understand. What happens in the cases where entire half-blocks are held by one small camp or absentee camp? I always find th...

Hello Chiwa, You are a wonderful example of Radical Self-Reliance that I admire soooooo much on the Playa. Flex your ingenuity. Make that tarp do what you want it to. Modify the dome a little if needed. Try to make do with discarded/used/free stuff. This is the ultimate re-cycling/re-purposing event...

Hey Brian, Been doing this a long time on the Playa with two aluminum carports. You say "barns", is it carports you mean? The peak-roof kind, 10 x 20 usually? Here's what I do. May or may not work for you. Any tarps covering objects like this I secured to the ground using rebar and bungees...

Hello Burning Family, Is anyone else experiencing a dramatic increase in van rental rates in the Bay Area or other areas? Last few years we rented a minivan for around $350 for around two-weeks time. Now, the rates are running about $1100!!?? Even cargo vans are going for $700-900 for 11 days. I hea...

The primary purpose of personal bike lighting is "to be seen by others" as you're cruising at night. The majority of bike lights are adequate for that. Sometimes those big powerful front lights blind pedestrians and cast too much light that sometimes detracts from the "night experienc...

Dear Ones, This was my 11th Burn. I still feel all of the above, even more so this year since the Playa proved that it is always in charge. Hard as it was with the wind and bumpy riding, I've never felt so connected to the Playa. That's what makes it more difficult, sitting in a room, here at home, ...

Twelfth year for me coming up. I probably stepped into an RV twice in those 11 years for a total of about 3 minutes, and that was too much. You'll be OK with a tent, a car, a tarp to cover both, a little carpeting, camp chair.

A most excellent topic. I welcome it. â€˜97 first yearâ€¦hello to all my fellow burners from that era. â€™97 was anarchic, surreal, wild, a little scary, liberating, nutty, funny, lots of clothing optional, very sexual, cop-less. We were on the Hualapai Playa. Camped a block off the esplanade next t...